[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3806 Introduced in House (IH)]

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114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3806

 To establish certain requirements with respect to pollock and golden 
                               king crab.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 22, 2015

 Ms. Herrera Beutler (for herself and Mr. Young of Alaska) introduced 
 the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 
                                Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish certain requirements with respect to pollock and golden 
                               king crab.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Alaskan Pollock and Golden King Crab 
Labeling Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Pollock and Golden King Crab.--Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, for purposes of applying the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.)--
            (1) the acceptable market name of Gadus chalcogrammus, 
        formerly known as Theragra chalcogramma, is ``pollock''; and
            (2) the acceptable market name of Lithodes aequispinus is 
        ``golden king crab''.
    (b) Labeling of Pollock.--Section 403 of the Federal Food, Drug, 
and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 343) is amended by adding at the end the 
following:
    ``(z) If it is labeled or advertised as `Alaskan pollock' or 
`Alaska pollock' and it is not pollock that is harvested in the 
exclusive economic zone (as that term is defined in the section 3 of 
the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 
1802)) or the State waters adjacent to the State of Alaska.''.
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